The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) published a new toolkit to help healthcare organizations prepare for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Phase 2 ...
Investigations by the Office for Civil Rights related to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act will no longer be initiated by only complaints and self-reported ...
In November 2011, the office began conducting the now-mandatory HIPAA compliance audits through an initial audit pilot project. Although HITECH requires OCR to audit both covered entities and business ...